Our Drinks

We’ve scoured the world to find the best drinks available including our very own range of Badger beers, which have been brewed in the heart of the Dorset countryside since 1777 and are only sold in Hall & Woodhouse pubs. There’s also lagers and wines from around the world, refreshing ciders, soft drinks and an ever increasing range of spirits, particularly local and regional gins. So whether it’s relaxing by a fire or whiling away those long spring and summer evenings you’re guaranteed to find something to quench your thirst.

Badger Beer

It was deep in Dorset’s rolling hills and patchwork fields, in 1777, that local farmer Charles Hall brewed our first beer. A union of the Hall & Woodhouse families soon followed and the story of Badger beer had begun.

To create the distinctive character of our delicious Badger beers, we combine hops and malted barley with pure spring water which has been filtered naturally through the Cretaceous chalk downs of Dorset. Our comprehensive range of cask and bottled beers, all with distinctive characters, are available throughout the year, although our offering does vary seasonally.

BADGER BEER

TANGLE FOOT

Cask 4.7% ABV
Bottle 5% ABV

The Godfather of all of our beers. A deceptively drinkable and multi award winning golden ale. Finest English Flagon barley, Goldings and Challenger hops deliver balanced flavours of crisp and subtle hop, with a delicate pear drop aroma.

THE FURSTY FERRET

BADGER BEST

Cask 3.7% ABV

Inspired and developed with the hop growers and merchants Charles Faram, the Celeia, Bobek and Dana hops provide a refreshing flavour that is both thirst-quenching and characterful. The hops are added in the brew house and dry hopped in the fermentation vessel, to ensure this classic beer retains its character to the last drop.

THE WICKED WYVERN

Draught 5.0% ABV

This West Coast style IPA is brewed with Amarillo, Cascade and Mosaic hops. The beer has a flaring deep bronze colour and a citrus aroma of zesty grapefruit with a bitter hop character and a dry hoppy finish. A wonderfully refreshing and well-balanced beer.

THE HOPPING HARE

Bottle 4.4% ABV

A refreshingly light, hoppy pale ale. A marriage of aromatic citrus American Amarillo and Cascade hops and the finest English Flagon barley.

Winner of the best golden ale in the UK at the World Beer Awards 2018.

THE GOLDEN CHAMPION

Bottle 4.5% ABV

A light golden ale with floral hints of elderflower. Light and refreshing, providing a crisp taste of summer.

THE BLANDFORD FLY

Bottle 5.2% ABV

A uniquely sweet and spicy golden ale with a refreshingly different ginger taste, which is offset with hints of sweet toffee.

Awarded UK silver in the flavoured herb and spice category at the World Beer Awards 2018.

THE CRANBORNE POACHER

Bottle 5.7% ABV

A bold, fruity, ruby ale. Crystal and chocolate malts provide a full bodied taste with sweet and complex flavours of damson and liquorice.

Winner of UK gold in the flavoured fruit & vegetable category at the World Beer Awards 2018.

Gin

We’ve selected some great gins for your next visit. With everything from Bombay Sapphire and Tanqueray to London No1 and Martin Miller you’re guaranteed to find a gin to your taste. Whilst our gin range may vary throughout the year, rest assured they’ll always be plenty of choice.

GIN

Bombay Sapphire – 40% ABV

Bombay Sapphire's name derives from gin's popularity during the British Raj in India and was developed to create a differentiated brand from the more traditional British London Dry Gins. Bombay Sapphire is triple distilled and features 10 botanicals.

Brooklyn Gin – 40% ABV

Brooklyn Gin is a vibrant gin from New York, made by using ‘hand-cracked’ juniper and fresh citrus peels (rather than frozen or dried peels). With big, well-rounded notes of citrus at its core, this gin also works excellently in fruit flavoured, lip-smacking cocktails.

Dorset Conker – 40% ABV

Produced in Dorset's first gin distillery, Conker Gin is distilled in 30 litre copper pot stills using a combination of 10 traditional and local botanicals. With New Forest spring water, the local botanicals include New Forest gorse flowers, elderberries and samphire to contribute sweet, fresh and bitter elements to the gin.

Hendrick’s – 41.4% ABV

Launched in 1999, Hendrick's is a popular and widely available Scottish gin. It is notable for its use of rose petals and cucumber alongside traditional botanicals and for blending two separate spirits - one created in a small pot still and another in a carter-head still in order to extract the different flavours of the different botanicals.

Langley’s No 8 – 41.7% ABV

Langley’s No.8 is distilled a single time in an English-made pot still. It is made of 100% English grain spirit and classic gin botanicals from indigenous regions including angelica root, ground nutmeg, cassia bark and cloves.

London No. 1 – 47% ABV

One of a handful of gins actually distilled in London, London No.1 was created to echo the complex and full bodied gins of yesteryear, albeit with a modern twist. The striking turquoise-blue colour is derived from maceration with gardenia flowers.

Martin Miller – 40% ABV

Launched in 1999, Martin Miller's Gin starts life at Langley's Distillery near Birmingham, before setting off on a 3,000 mile round trip to Iceland and back. The reason being to use only the purest water. The man behind the gin, Martin Miller, passed away in December 2013 and was successful in photography, publishing and the hotel industry too.

Silent Pool – 43% ABV

Silent Pool Gin is distilled on a former farm site on the Albury Estate in Surrey. As well as using water from the spring-fed Silent Pool pond next to the distillery, from which the gin takes its name and the colour of its bottle, it features 24 botanicals. These include chamomile, rose, elderflower, Kaffir lime leaf, pear, bergamot and local honey.

Sipsmith – 41.6% ABV

The Sipsmith distillery is based in West London and boasts the first copper pot still to be installed and used in London for 200 years at the time (which they named Prudence). It's the distillery that helped spearhead the London gin revival with its dry, zesty London Dry gin that's increasingly popular in pubs and bars across the country.

Tanqueray 10 - 47.3% ABV

Launched in 2000, Tanqueray Ten gin is the premium gin produced by the well-known British Gin brand Tanqueray. In a 2-stage distillation the botanicals include fresh, whole citrus, giving it a crisp, full bodied flavour with grapefruit and lime being notable on the palate. Tanqueray Ten is the only gin to feature in the World Spirits Competition ‘Hall of Fame’ after three top prize victories

Tanqueray – 43.1% ABV

Gin has a long and fascinating history and is in the top 10 highest selling gins in the world. Charles Tanqueray opened the original distillery in the 1830's in London, which was later destroyed by air raids during WWII and production now takes place in Scotland. The recipe (with just 4 botanicals) has been kept a secret and the same recipe has been used since the gin's conception.

Soft Drinks

Messers. Hall & Woodhouse are delighted to present a pleasing assortment of their soft and non-alcoholic drinks for the delegation of their guests.

We’ve teamed up with some of the most well-known and more obscure soft drinks suppliers, from Coca-Cola, Frobishers and Fever Tree to Firefly, Folkingtons, Seedlip and Soda Folk, to offer a diverse range non-alcoholic beverages, which can be enjoyed all year round.

ALCOHOL-FREE BEER

Heineken 0.0 Lager

0.0% is a balanced thirst-quencher with refreshing fruity notes and a soft malty body in a classic North European style.

ALCOHOL-FREE WINE

Rosé, Spanish (250ml)

Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon. Fermented and macerated. Pairs perfectly with traditional tapas, sausages and cured meats, as well as vegetable dishes and pasta.

BOTANICALS

Seedlip Garden 108 with tonic

A floral blend of hand-picked peas, hay, spearmint, rosemary and thyme. Best served with Indian tonic water. Why 108? It takes 108 days to grow peas.

Seedlip Spice 94 with tonic

A complex aromatic blend of Jamaican allspice berry & cardamom distillates with two barks and a bright citrus peel finish. Best served with Indian tonic water. Why 94? In 1494 Columbus encountered the allspice berries of what we now know as Jamaica.

CHILDREN

Cawston Press Apple & Pear (Carton)

Lovely-tasting apple and pear varieties, pressed whole before adding a splosh of water.

Cawston Press Apple & Summer Berries (Carton)

Delicious varieties of apples added to raspberries and strawberries and pressed whole with a splish of water.

COLA

Coca-Cola

The real thing, created in 1886, in the classic bottle.

Karma Organic Cola

Made with Fairtrade organic cane sugar and real cola nut grown by the Mende and Temne people of Sierra Leone. Some of the proceeds from each bottle go to the growers’ families.

DIFFERENT (but delicious!)

Soda Folk Root Beer

Made with a careful mix of extracts, organic vanilla, cane sugar and pure maple syrup.

Firefly Lemon, Lime & Ginger

A zingy blend of lemons and limes, brimming with ginger and dandelion.

FLAVOURED SPARKLING DRINKS

Belvoir Elderflower Pressé (Light)

The taste of summer: an exquisite blend of freshly-picked elderflowers, fresh lemon juice and spring water.

Rio Tropical (and Tropical Light – 17 calories)

San Pellegrino Limonata

Created in 1959, this all-natural drink is made from a traditional recipe – sparkling water, freshly squeezed sun-ripened Italian lemons and sugar.

Karma Gingerella Ginger Ale

Taste the justice. The clean, crisp and fiery kick comes from a unique blend of Sri Lankan Fairtrade organic ginger, lemons, sugar and spice – and it’s a fair deal for the people who grow them.

FRUIT JUICES

Big Tom Spicy Tomato Juice

Fine Portuguese tomato juice delicately blended with herbs and spices. A tomato is actually a fruit but we don’t put it in our fruit salad.

Folkington’s Cloudy Apple

Blended juice from two British-grown apple varieties: Russet and Jonagored.

Frobishers Cranberry

100% pure, from autumn-harvested North American cranberries.

Pago Orange

The aroma of fully sun-ripened oranges, the texture of the pulp and the slight bitterness of the juice… delicious.

GINGER BEER

Fentimans Traditional Ginger Beer

Made with the finest natural ginger root. Fiery and full of flavour. The classic ‘lashings of ginger beer’ bottle.

TONIC

Fever-Tree Elderflower

Oils from handpicked English elderflowers blended with quinine from the fever trees of the Congo. Enjoy with gin or vodka or as a long drink on its own.

Fever-Tree Aromatic

The gentle bitterness of angostura bark blended with aromatic botanicals such as cardamom, pimento berry and ginger. Enhances juniperrich and robust gin. Or try it as a sophisticated drink on its own.

Fever-Tree Indian (and Light)

Botanical oils blended with spring water and quinine from the fever-trees of the Eastern Congo. Makes the best gins or vodkas even better.

WATER

Coastal Spring Still and Sparkling

Lager

We’ve put together a great range of draught lagers to help quench your thirst! Next time you visit why not try our brand new lager Forum, brewed by Hall & Woodhouse.

Forum is a refreshing Helles style lager, with a delicate flavour and subtle fruity lemon character. The name refers not only to Blandford Forum, the location of the H&W brewery where this new, exciting lager is brewed, but also to a meeting or gathering where ideas and views can be exchanged. And where better to meet and put the world to rights than in a traditional British pub, where you can enjoy this refreshing drink with friends and family. Make you ask a Team Member to try it next time you pop in.

Lager

FORUM - 4.2%

Forum is a refreshing Helles style lager from Hall & Woodhouse, with a delicate flavour from the Weihenstephan yeast and a subtle fruity lemon character from Hallertau Blanc and Huell Melon hops.

AMSTEL - 4.1%

Founded in 1870 in Amsterdam, this lager's golden colour comes from the combination of two malts; light-coloured pilsner and a little bit of dark malt. The tasty and spicy hops make for a refreshing and mildly bitter lager.

BIRRA MORETTI - 4.6%

Birra Moretti has been enjoyed in Italy since 1859 and is still brewed to the same recipe today. A special blend of high quality hops combined with delicate malt notes make for a full bodied and well balanced lager.

Wine

Our eclectic wine list contains all of your favourites from around the world, from refreshing whites featuring Chenin Blanc, Pinot Grigio, Picpoul de Pinet and Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc grape varieties, to reds packed with fruit flavours and featuring Shiraz, Merlot, Malbec and Tempranillo grapes. And if that’s not enough our rosé and sparkling wines and Champagnes are ideal for those long summer evenings watching the World go by on our decked patio or in our large garden.

WHITE

Macabeo, Bodegas Borsao – Spain

Ripe, refreshing and fruity with nutty stone
fruit flavours and a dash of minerals.

Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough, Sileni Cellar Selection – New Zealand

Picpoul de Pinet, Baron de Badassière – France

Pale lemon in colour with crisp apple aromas complemented by a citrus edge. On the palate, it has a good balance of ripe, yellow plums & greengages & a fresh lime zest acidity that continues through
the finish.

175ml

250ml

Bottle

£6.10

£8.35

£21.95

Pinot Gris Marlborough, Kim Crawford – New Zealand

Pale straw in colour. Wonderfully lifted
orchard fruit notes of ripe pear & apple
with floral notes & hints of clove.
Well balanced with a touch of fruit
sweetness on the crisp finish.

175ml

250ml

Bottle

-

-

£25.50

Chablis, Domaine de la Motte – France

Nervy, mineral fruit with added depth
from a small addition of oak-aged wine.
Typical of the Motte style, this gives
the wine a richness & balance.

175ml

250ml

Bottle

-

-

£27.50

ROSÉ

Bodegas Borsao Rosé – Spain

A well balanced & fruity rosé with aromas of strawberry jam & a hint of mid palate sweetness.

175ml

250ml

Bottle

£4.35

£5.55

£14.95

White Zinfandel Rosé, Another Story – USA

A medium to sweet blush rosé with lots of wild strawberries on the nose, supported by a bright, berry fruited palate & juicy fruit finish.

Pinot Noir, Rosé Royale Montresor – Italy

CHAMPAGNE

Joseph Perrier Cuvée Royale NV – France

Stylish and elegant aromas of citrus fruit
peel, reinette apples and vineyard peaches, followed by hints of vanilla and cinnamon. Soft persistent bubbles.

Half Bottle

Bottle

£22.95

£41.95

Allergies and Intolerances: Before ordering your drinks, please speak to a member of the team if you want to know about the ingredients used.For wine vintages where applicable, please ask a member of our team. All wines served by the glass are also available in a 125ml serving.

Cocktails

We’ve got a range of delicious cocktails ideal for those after works get togethers, ladies nights out or a nice quiet drink before a romantic meal for two. So why not ask a member of our team to knock up your favourite and relax and unwind. Our cocktail range may vary throughout the year, rest assured they’ll always be plenty of choice though.

Cocktails

THE ABC

Amaretto liqueur and Baileys Original Irish Cream is an irresistible combination, with milk and fresh espresso making it into a rich, creamy cocktail that you will love.

£6.00

ENGLISH MOJITO

A gin-based version of the classic Mojito, switching out rum for Tanqueray London Dry Gin and cucumber along with mint for a subtle take on the great cocktail.

£6.50

SECRET GARDEN

A berry-fresh, lightly sweet blend of Tanqueray London Dry Gin, ripe raspberries and mint leaves, enhanced with tangy lime, this cocktail is delicious and surprisingly complex.

£6.50

TROPICAL SANGRIO

Colourful Coffee

Our delicious ‘Rocket Espresso’ comes from our friends at Extract Coffee Roasters and is the perfect combination of great coffee and good ethics. The special blend comprises 100% Arabica coffee beans from a single farm in Colombia and a co-operative project in Peru, which works to directly benefit the families and communities involved. The result of this is a naturally sweet and full-bodied coffee with notes of chocolate and caramel to finish.

COLOURFUL COFFEE - BECAUSE COFFEE SHOULDN’T JUST BE BLACK OR WHITE

100% Arabica, Ethically Sourced, Perfectly Crafted

All our coffees come with a double shot as standard. If you prefer your coffee decaffeinated, made with soya milk, or you like the addition of a flavoured syrup, please just ask our team.

Espresso

Regular

Small

£2.05

Macchiato

Regular

Small

£2.05

Americano

Regular

Small

£2.55

£2.35

Cappuccino

Regular

Small

£2.95

£2.65

Latte

Regular

Small

£2.95

£2.65

Flat White

Regular

Small

£2.65

Mocha

Regular

Small

£3.05

£2.85

TEA

From misty mountains and sun-kissed plains, the independent British company Canton Tea brings us the World’s best teas and herbal infusions. They source their teas direct from small, family-run farms, buying seasonally to ensure our teas are authentic, fresh and full of flavour.

Dark Hot Chocolate

White Hot Chocolate

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